Interaction between finder_sql and Active Scaffold

I came across an interesting interaction in Rails that depended on two things that I didn't know (of course, that list is infinite). The two things were:

1. Active Record ignores finder_sql when you do an eager load of an association (though I can't find a definitive reference for this, it is the observed behaviour);
   
2. Active Scaffold uses eager loading by default
   

I didn't have any specs that explicitly tested that my model could eagerly load its associations, but everything else seemed to be working, so I was surprised that Active Scaffold was unhappy. The solution was to tell Active Scaffold not to use eager loading on that particular association, following the instructions in the FAQ under "my database is choking" (which kind of describes what was happening to me, if the choking was fatal).